David Cargo

David Francis Cargo (13 January 1929-5 July 2013) was Governor of New Mexico (R) from 1 January 1967 to 1 January 1971, succeeding Jack M. Campbell and preceding Bruce King.

Biography
David Francis Cargo was born in Dowagiac, Michigan in 1929, and he served in the State House of Representatives from 1963 to 1967 as a Republican; he forced proportional representation in the state legislature, and he was one of the youngest governors elected in US history at the age of 38. He was considered a liberal Republican in the style of Nelson Rockefeller, and he supporter prisoner rehabilitation and a war on poverty; however, President Richard Nixon diverted many of his anti-poverty funds to the Vietnam War. He launched failed US Senate bids in 1970 to 1972, and he died of complications from a stroke in 2013.